Personal Pronouns

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Personal Pronouns

• All you need to know!

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Personal Pronouns

• Personal pronouns take the place of nouns.
• The nouns that pronouns refer to are called
  antecedents.
• Pronouns can be nominative, objective, or
  possessive (3 CASES).

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Nominative vs. Objective vs. Possessive

• Nominative pronouns are SUBJECTS or
• PREDICATE NOMINATIVES (pronouns that come after a
  linking verb and rename the subject)
• -- Objective pronouns are Direct Objects,
  Indirect Objects(follow action verbs), or Objects
  of Prepositions(follow prepositions)
• -- Possessive pronouns show OWNERSHIP

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Singular Pronouns
Nominative Objective Possessive
1st person I Me My mine
2nd person you you Your yours
3rd person He, she, it Him, her, it His her Hers its
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Plural pronouns
Nominative Objective Possessive
1st person We us our Ours
2nd person You you Your Yours
3rd person They them their theirs
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The Nominative CaseRemember a predicate pronoun
follows a linking verb and explains or identifies
the subject of a verb.-Follows a form of the
verb be (am, is, are, was, were, be, or
been)Strip or FlipYou can rely on your ear if
you strip the sentence so that only one pronoun
remains in the subject.Ex. Henry and me worked
hard Me worked
hard.Correct Henry and I worked hard. To
test predicate pronouns, flip the pronoun so that
its in front of the verb.Ex. The singer was
her. Her was the
singer.Correct The singer was she.
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The Objective CaseA direct object follows an
action verb and tells who or what receives the
action of a verb.An indirect object comes
between an action verb and a direct object and
tells to whom or what OR for whom or what.The
object (of a preposition) is a noun or pronoun
that follows a preposition.Identify the
objective pronouns and how they are used.Trent
gave her the jacket.Kristen left me there for
two hours.As soon as we got the package, we
passed it on to them.
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Who is it? To Whom it May Concern

• Who is a nominative case pronoun
• Whom is an objective case pronoun

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Pronouns with Appositives

• When a pronoun is followed directly by a noun
  that identifies the pronoun, omit the appositive
  and try each form of the pronoun separately.
• (We, Us) teachers love our students.
• Would it be. . .We love our students.
• or. . .Us love our students.

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Sowhich pronouns go where? And what are they
doing?

• I gave __________ (he/him) a dollar.
• Mary and ________ (she/her) are the winners!
• Please bring the flowers to _____(they/them).
• Joe bought drinks for Mary and _____(he/him)
• Dont forget to bring _____(her/she) coat.
• Susan loves _____(he/him).
• _______ made the pizza? (who/whom)
• To _________ am I speaking? (who/whom)

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